Academic Probation and Disqualification

Requirement

Graduate students are required to maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher in order to remain in good standing and to graduate. The overall GPA is different from a semester GPA. The overall GPA is your cumulative GPA that you earn starting from the first semester as a graduate student at SJSU. It is the GPA that takes into account the GPA earned for all previous semesters. The semester GPA is your GPA that is calculated on a semester-by-semester basis.

Academic Probation

If a student is currently in good standing, and at the end of a semester their overall GPA falls below 3.0, they will be placed on “Academic Probation.” A status of Academic Probation indicates that the student is not performing to minimum graduate GPA standards and is at risk of being disqualified from the university.

Students who earn less than a B in a core course (INFO 200, 202, 204) are placed on Administrative Probation by iSchool and will have a hold placed on their academic records.

Approximately two weeks before the end of Advanced Registration, MySJSU will allow students to enroll in a retake of a core course or elective. Check the SJSU Registrar’s Calendar for the specific date.

Once on academic probation, graduate students are subject to disqualification if they fail to earn a SJSU term GPA of 3.0 or better each semester until a SJSU cumulative GPA of 3.0 is again established. See: S10-6 www.sjsu.edu/senate/S10-6.pdf

Tools for Academic Progress Planning

Students on probation are encouraged to take advantage of our self-paced workbook, Solutions for Success. Students on probation may use the workbook’s exercises and steps to create their plan forward, including a special probation calculator to project how taking a given number of classes with variations of expected grades would affect their ability to clear probation in the coming terms.

Administrative Probation

If a student fails to make a B in each core class (INFO 200,202,204) the student is placed on administrative probation and is at risk of disqualification. If on a second attempt the student again fails to make a B the student will be administratively disqualified.

Once on academic/administrative probation, graduate students are also subject to disqualification if they fail to earn a SJSU term GPA of 3.0 or better each semester until a SJSU cumulative GPA of 3.0 is again established. See: S10-6 www.sjsu.edu/senate/S10-6.pdf

If a student is awarded a NC (No Credit) grade in INFO 289 -the Schools’s culminating class- the student will be placed on administrative probation and is at risk of disqualification. If a second NC (No Credit) is awarded for the class the student will be administratively disqualified.

Once a student is disqualified, they are no longer officially a matriculated student in the university. Disqualified students will be precluded from registering for future SJSU graduate courses either through Regular or Special Session, or through Open University.

The School of Information does not reinstate students who have been disqualified.